I’m lovin’ it

Like any child Percival Lugue 50 from Philippines enjoyed playing with the toys he got with his fast food meals But he always took care of them and was hence able to start an epic collection of toys quite early on Today he has about 20000 toys packed from floor to ceiling in his home and holds a Guinness World Record from 2014 when his collection reached more than 10000 itemsOver the years he has collected new items from various fast food chains like McDonaldrsquos Burger King and even Philippinesrsquo favourite brand Jollibee He compares the excitement of adding a new toy to his collection to experiencing Christmas morning as a kidThe graphic artist who built his threestorey house in Apalit Pampanga Province to store his collection dreams of one day putting the toys on display for the public or even to open a small museum and give people a chance to ldquorevisit their own childhood memoriesrdquo ldquoThe toy is like a storyteller in itself For example it gives me a glimpse of that particular period when I got it the story of whatrsquos going on what are the incidents that are attached to the acquisitionrdquoAlthough most of the toys in Luguersquos collection come from personal purchases he admits that he did have some help from friends and family Sometimes he would ldquoguiderdquo them towards helping him by inviting them to have lunch at a fast food restaurant and would manage to complete a whole set of toys in one sittingMaa ka ladlaChinese mum spent more than a crore building two metal FOBs to make sure son crossed road safelyA woman identified only by her surname Meng saw that the road outside her sonrsquos school in Chinarsquos Henan province was always congested and with no traffic lights installed nearby crossing the road was a dangerous affair for both students and teachers In order to make the road safe she spent 154000 Rs 112 crore out of her own pocket to build two footbridges over the road Though both bridges have been approved by the local bureau of housing and urbanrural development their construction was exclusively funded by the mother Meng said that she never told her son that she had paid for the new footbridges ldquoI just did what I can afford to do I will call the bridge the Wisdom Bridge Students crossing the bridge can get wiser and wiserrdquo she saidAnt gets a genderneutral nameA newly discovered ant species from the Ecudor forests is being given a scientific name ending in ldquotheyrdquo Researchers named the ant ldquoStrumigenys ayerstheyrdquo as they wanted to celebrate nonbinary people and commemorate activist and artist Jeremy Ayers who was a gay human rights activistThe cat who loves a driveMao Mao a twoyearold British Shorthair from China works as a professional model and earns 10000 yuan 1550 During an auto show her owner decided to put her on one of the cars Immediately she was a hit and people couldnrsquot wait to share a picture on their social mediaThis app just gives you 24 hrs to find a dateNew dating app Thursday is trying to make online dating fun and exciting by only letting users access it only once a week Thursday will only be accessible on Thursdays giving users 24 hours to match and chat with other people in the hope of finding a date If they fail to do so theyrsquoll have to try again the following weekMum didnrsquot know she was preggy until baby poppedLavinia Mounga had no idea a baby was coming when she went into labour on a flight from her home in Utah to Honolulu last week Dr Dale Glenn a Hawaii Pacific Health family medicine physician along with some neonatal intensive care unit nurses were also on the plane and helped the new mother and babyScuba divers find Manny from Ice AgeTwo scuba divers from Florida discovered a mammoth fourfootlong 23 kg bone embedded in the sand at the bottom of the Peace River Henry Sadler one of the scuba divers posted on Instagram saying that it was a ldquoonceinalifetimerdquo discoveryGo on a space odysseyMarten Griego who wasnrsquot satisfied with the paint job he was doing at his Albuquerque home two decades ago spent 21 years filling the interior with spaceshipinspired decor The house recently went viral after it was listed by Jonathan Ortiz and Alexandria Oberbeck of Southwest Elite Realty Ortiz said entering the house is akin to ldquowalking into a museumrdquo The home has 3D murals and other spaceinspired decorations including a hightech kitchenThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever